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The top pictures astronauts took of Earth in 2017

Residents of the International Space Station pointed their cameras towards Earth to capture these images of our home planet.

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If you want to up your Instagram game in 2017, perhaps you should consider living in space.

Because these pictures of Earth taken from the International Space Station this year are absolutely stunning.

Here’s a closer look at some of the amazing images.

New York

City lights in the Northeastern US (Nasa)
(JSC/Nasa)

A chess board landscape in Idaho

Checkerboard pattern along the Priest River in northern Idaho (Nasa)
(Nasa)

Solar evaporation ponds in Utah

Solar evaporation ponds outside the city of Moab, Utah. There are 23 colourful ponds spread across 400 acres. They are part of a large operation to mine potassium chloride (Nasa)
Solar evaporation ponds outside the city of Moab, Utah. There are 23 colourful ponds spread across 400 acres. They are part of a large operation to mine potassium chloride (Nasa)

Meidob Volcanic Field in Sudan

. The entire field covers an area of approximately 5,000 square kilometres (approximately 1,930 square miles) of western Sudan (Nasa)
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Hurricane Jose

Hurricane Jose taken from the ISS (Nasa)
(Nasa)

The city lights of north-western Europe

London and Paris among the cities seen in this night-time shot of north-western Europe
(Nasa)

Sunrise over the Philippine Sea

partial disc of the sun just as it began to rise, creating a sheet of light across the horizon. Silhouetted clouds give the sense of a jumbled mountain range. (Nasa)
(Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Centre/Nasa)

Mount Etna erupting

The volcanic plume from Mount Etna (Nasa)
(Nasa)

Aurora Borealis over Canada

Northern Lights over Canada
(Nasa)

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